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House Speaker Busch: Time to remove Taney statue from Maryland State House grounds (Dred Scott)
Baltimore Sun ^ | 14 August 2017 | Erin Cox

Posted on 08/14/2017 7:24:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: silverleaf

Not confused, see my followup post regarding a 20th century case.


41 posted on 08/14/2017 8:43:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: 11th_VA

I’ve got to admit I’m conflicted on this one because I’ve always considered Taney and Dred Scott the real cause of the Civil War it was an appalling ruling it was pure judicial activism and anti state rights in that it reached into an free state

the reality is that many on the South Side fought bravely and nobly and I’ve always supported their right to be celebrated

but I also felt that the South probably would have resolved slavery and dissolve slowly and things been allowed to work themselves out

Tanner’s ruling inflamed the whole damn thing


42 posted on 08/14/2017 8:45:30 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: TigerClaws

I think the tactic that will result out of this...is that the alt-right will begin to yank down every single statue that exist. Fancy art statues, non-civil war statues, etc. It’ll all be dragged down. You can see the sequences going on here, and easy decisions made like in this Taney statue...it’ll just perk everyone to say all statues go down.


43 posted on 08/14/2017 8:47:31 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

And then when Muslims take over France they’ll have a bonfire of the masterpieces on the front lawn.

Same mentality.


44 posted on 08/14/2017 9:06:08 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: rktman

How about any monument or place named in honor of Lyndon “I’ll Have Them N*ggers Voting Democrat for 200 Years” Johnson?


45 posted on 08/14/2017 9:23:22 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The Democrats have a lot of erasing to do. When do we get around to erasing all the things names after Robert Byrd? We can throw in FDR for Japanese internment camps.


46 posted on 08/14/2017 9:25:19 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m suggesting a trade: Take down the Taney statue if we can take Busch out of the state legislature. He’s as good a fascist as Maryland has provided in a long time, him and Miller (a Mussolini-wannabe).


47 posted on 08/14/2017 11:30:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 11th_VA

Democrats think this is a winning election issue by http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2017/voters_oppose_removing_confederate_monuments says 69% want history left alone. Beep Beep Wile E Coyotes, Beep Beep.


48 posted on 08/15/2017 4:12:54 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 11th_VA

Democrats think this is a winning election issue by http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2017/voters_oppose_removing_confederate_monuments says 69% want history left alone. Beep Beep Wile E Coyotes, Beep Beep.


49 posted on 08/15/2017 4:12:55 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 11th_VA

When will they get to all the Planned Parenthood facilities and welfare offices?


50 posted on 08/15/2017 4:18:23 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: 11th_VA

And he belonged to the Democratic Party.

Notables:
1777: Roger Brooke Taney was born on March 17, 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, the son of Monica (Brooke) and Michael Taney.

1806: Taney married Anne Phoebe Charlton Key, sister of Francis Scott Key, on January 7, 1806.

1833: In 1833, as secretary of the Treasury, Taney ordered an end to the deposit of Federal money in the Second Bank of the United States, an act that killed the institution.

1835: In January 1835 Jackson, in defiance of the Senate’s rejection of Taney as Treasury Secretary, nominated Taney as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Gabriel Duvall.

1857: By the time he wrote his Dred Scott opinion in 1857, he labeled the opposition to slavery as “northern aggression”, a popular phrase among pro-slavery Southerners.

1861: Taney personally administered the oath of office to Lincoln, his most prominent critic, on March 4, 1861.


51 posted on 08/15/2017 4:51:52 AM PDT by Garvin (“Republicans are the new punk” (Sabo))
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To: 11th_VA

I’m surprised this dolt didn’t suggest renaming Taneytown, MD. It was founded by a distant relative of Roger B. Taney and that’s just close enough.


52 posted on 08/15/2017 5:53:29 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Erasing history is the easiest way to rewrite it.

Yep, it worked for awhile for Stalin, and look where that got the russians.

Others trying to erase history - the Taliban, ISIS, (you can add to the list)

53 posted on 08/15/2017 6:33:40 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the spicy catsup. We've got Trump now.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

That’s just crazy. Everybody “knows” lbj loved black people. Typical hypocritcal dementocrat.


54 posted on 08/15/2017 7:37:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: 11th_VA; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


55 posted on 08/15/2017 12:36:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: EinNYC

Those will be removed too, lest they offend midgets and dwarves.


56 posted on 08/15/2017 12:37:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: EinNYC

They will remove lawn jockey statues next, even though those were originally created to mark stops on the Underground Railroad.


57 posted on 08/15/2017 12:38:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: 11th_VA

I expected this...


58 posted on 08/15/2017 1:39:54 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: TigerClaws

FDR too. Japanese internments.


59 posted on 08/19/2017 12:31:40 PM PDT by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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